Explore data on LGBT and Sex Work Organisations across Uganda
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AGYW
FSWs
Gay
LGBTIQ
MSM
MSW
PLHIV
PWUIDs
Sex Workers
Budaka district
Bududa district
Bulambuli district
Busia district
Gomba district
Gulu district
No organisations attached yet.
Kampala district
- Alliance of Women Advocating for Change
- Ark Wellness Hub Uganda
- Children Of The Sun Foundation (COSF)
- Come Out Positive
- East Africa Visual Artists
- Empowered At Dusk Women’s Association
- Fem Alliance Uganda
- Freedom and Roam Uganda
- Gala Initiative Uganda
- Golden Centre for Women`s Rights Uganda
- Icebreakers Uganda
- Key Populations Uganda
- Lady Mermaid
- Let’s Walk Uganda
- Men of the Night
- OGERA Uganda
- Queer Youth Uganda
- Rescue Uganda
- SWING Uganda
- Service Workers in Group Foundation Uganda
- Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG)
- Spectrum Uganda
- Trans Network Uganda
- Trans Positives Uganda
- UHRN
- UNESO
- Uganda Key Populations Consortium (UKPC)
- Visual Echoes
- YRF
- iFreedom Uganda
- makocoda
Kayunga district
Kitgum district
Luweero district
Manafwa district
No organisations attached yet.
Serere district
Sironko district
Wakiso district
- Ark Wellness Hub Uganda
- Children Of The Sun Foundation (COSF)
- Come out post test club (COPTEC)
- Empowered At Dusk Women’s Association
- Freedom and Roam Uganda
- Golden Centre for Women`s Rights Uganda
- Happy Family Youth Uganda
- JEEWAG Foundation
- Key Populations Uganda
- Let’s Walk Uganda
- Men of the Night
- Rainbow Mirrors Uganda
- SLUM
- SWING Uganda
- Service Workers in Group Foundation Uganda
- The foaster foundation uganda
- Trans Network Uganda
- Uganda Key Populations Consortium (UKPC)
- VINACEF Uganda
- Visual Echoes
- Women’s Positive Empowerment Initiative Uganda
Summary
54
Total LGBT & Sex Work Organisations
21
Districts with available services for key populations
2
Organisations with a toll-free line
Issues
The organisations are focused on a broad number of issues depending on their mandate. These issues inform their programmes and activities in the communities they support
Issue | Number of organisations |
---|---|
Access to Justice | 14 |
Advocacy | 25 |
Community Empowerment | 19 |
Digital Rights | 3 |
Health Services Delivery | 21 |
Legal Services | 10 |
Psychosocial Support | 26 |
Communities Reached
Community | Total people reached |
---|---|
People Who Use and Inject Drugs (PWUIDs) | 1536 |
MSM | 11213 |
Trans Men | 11222 |
Trans Women | 11485 |
FSWs | 13013 |
AGYW | 4487 |
PLHIV | 1495 |
LBQ Women | 2993 |
MSWs | 2225 |
Services
Service Offered | Number of organisations |
---|---|
Access to contraception | 28 |
Access to Justice | 1 |
Advocacy | 24 |
Community Empowerment | 22 |
Counselling | 32 |
Digital Rights | 1 |
Digital Security | 4 |
Drop-in Centre | 23 |
Emergency Response | 5 |
Harm Reduction | 6 |
Health service delivery | 13 |
HIV Testing & Treatment | 28 |
legal services | 11 |
Psychosocial support | 1 |
Referrals for Counselling & Mental Health | 27 |
Screening & Treatment of STIs | 20 |
Human Rights Violations and Abuses
Violation | Total Occurrences |
---|---|
Arbitrary Detention | 484 |
Arrest for violating COVID-19 movement restrictions | 260 |
Blackmail | 103 |
Defamation | 22 |
Denial of an investigation by the police | 33 |
Discrimination because of HIV status | 205 |
Discrimination due to SOGIE | 225 |
Employment termination | 54 |
Eviction due to failure to pay rent | 244 |
Excessive use of force by law enforcement | 425 |
Extortion | 39 |
Gender-based/intimate partner violence while staying with a partner | 476 |
Harassment | 125 |
Intimidation | 88 |
Public Outing | 182 |
Torture or cruel, inhumane, degrading treatment in a public health facility | 54 |
Torture or cruel, inhumane, degrading treatment in police/prison custody | 73 |
Unable to access health services due to movement restrictions | 590 |
Unable to access legal services | 72 |
Unable to adhere to ART due to lack of nutritional support | 632 |
Denial of health services | 0 |
Denial of legal services | 0 |
Denial of protection by police | 0 |